ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 4 June 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

STATE THEATRE. “SEA DEVILS.” Riding the swirling waves of adventure and romance, Academy Award winner Victor McLaglcn as a Chief Bo’sun’s Mato in the Coast Guard and Preston Foster as his rival score a bull’s-eye in stellar entertainment in RICO Radio’s drama, “Sea Devils,” which opens at the State Theatre to-night at tho 10.30 p.m. session, and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sharing the, spotlight honours with McLaglen and Foster in this thrilling vignette oi an unsung but heroic branch of the Government service, is Ida Lupino with Donald Woods heading the supporting cast. Seaman Foster, an adventurer, no sooner joins the ciew of McLaglcn’s ship than trouble starts between the two. Boasting of his prowess with the. weaker ecx, Foster begins courting McLaglcn’s . daughter, Ida Lupino. Foster is about the last man in tho service .McLaglcn would choose as a son-in-law, but it happens that his daughter has a mind of her own, so McLaglcn initiates a bitter lend with the sailor. Terrific combats between this pair of Titans vie with thrilling rescues from storm-battered ships as dramatic highlights of this action-cram-med photoplay. Using the United Slates Coast Guard cutter 'Tahoe and its crew, perilous rescue of passengers from a burning vessel is effected, and later other lives are saved from a hurricane-grounded boat, in which full beach equipment, including surf boats, a Lyle gun, a breeches buoy and other apparatus, is brought into play in a revealing demonstration of lifesaving technique. An authentic reproduction of Coast Guard procedure was assured by the retention of Lieutenant H. C. Moore as technical adviser throughout the production. Both McLaglen and Foster played together in RKO Radio’s prize-winning film of 1935, “The Informer,” a:ul it was as the result of his performance in that film that McLaglon won the Academy Award for the outstanding male performance of the year. Miss Lupino, attractive English actress, and Donald Woods, popular leading man, add histrionic lustre to the Screen drama. REGENT THEATRE. “ROSE MARIE.” In a production sweeping with song and scented with romance, Jeanette Mae Do- , aid and Nelson Eddy, those celebrated ; co-stars of “’Naughty Marietta,” come to | I the screen of the Rognt Theatre to- j | night at the 10.30 p.m. sessions in , their well-known characters of light . I opera, “Rose Marie.” Under their j magic spoil tile fun beauty of “The Indian j Love Call,” “Rose Marie, 1 Love You,” j “Song of tho Motilities,” and other clas- , sics Irom the Herbert Stothart-Rudolf ■ Frimi score, live again. More charming ] even than they were in the record- t breaking “Naughty Marietta,” Rose ; Marie” is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayev c triumph, filmed almost entirely out-of- ( doers, in the mountain-like country of the t Sierra Nevadas, the production is a pic- t torial sensation. Glimmering lakes, tow- ] cring pcakri, dangerous passes, all the j beauty of nature servers as background ; for tho romantic saga of tho Great North- t west. It was given full benefit of Dircc- a tor W. S. Van Dyke’s proven talents, and ; magnificently mounted by Producer Hunt \ Stromlicrg, the successful collaborators of s “Naughty .Marietta.” “Rose Marie" is j the story of a Canadian grand opera j singer who travels incognito . into the c backwoods regions in search of her i brother, a criminal from justice. Also searching for the brother is Sergeant Bruce, of the Royal Canadian Mounted t Police. They meet and fall in love, until j she realises the mission of the other. The j crashing climax and poignant ending of tho story will be remembered long after j most pictures are forgotten. One of tbo ( outidanding sequences is the Totem Pole i Indian Dance, the grotesque • set mounted ] on a sandpit extending into a broad lake, j Peopled bv more than a thousand dancers, s lavish in costume, with music thrillnigly a beautiful, it sets a new high for effect t photography and .spectacular direction. A 1 ■strong supporting east assists Miss Mac- e Donald and Eddy in “Rose Marie,” among f them being James Stewart as tlie crim- f inal brother, Reginald Owen as the star’s t, manager, Allan Jones who scored so do- f (Lively in “A Night at the Opera,” 1 George Regas, Robert Greig, Una O’Con- a nor and Lucien Littcfield. f